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Africa Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in East Africa, and you had the Neanderthal in Europe, Homo Erectus in part of Asia, and so forth.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing for Africa is that whoever wants to invest in our countries should start in manufacturing.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every season, I want to be the best I can to be Africa's best player. I will do the best I can.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is a legend - not just Africa and Chelsea but the whole world. Didier is a great player.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.
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- Nov 07, 2020
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the continent's most devastating conflicts - and the literature born from the experiences of their survivors - have often gone unnoticed in the West.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love South Africa.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Africa the first time when I was 14 and first starting out in modeling. I went for a campaign and I just fell in love.
- Global Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to keep up our guard. We won't get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility.
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.
- Bad Review
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
While WHO has never had a director from Africa, no one should elect me because I am from Africa.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I have worked on programs in Africa and around the globe to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. I have been witness to incredible progress in these fights.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a lot of insensitivity, especially as maybe as far as the ‘Africa' video goes. But the song was about a fantasy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.
- Ecosystems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.
- Far East
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.
- Exodus
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marseille has a big Muslim community. The good thing is it is a melting point: all nationalities in there. Everyone is fine with each other. It is really close to North Africa, to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, so a lot of them come from there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
- Plague
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
- Big Proponent
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- Nov 07, 2020
You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There was literally a church on every corner.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor. And the center of it was Uganda.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.
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- Nov 07, 2020